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We Can Make It

Hey guys!!!
I just wanted to encourage everyone by complimenting on what a wonderful job we have done and have yet to do. However, I am aware of some drama that has arroused within the OAP Family. Everyone loves and cares for eachother like a sibbling, even when nerves fly, we we are mature enough to handle the situation with class. Now, don't let my words of praise be empty. Let's, this goes for EVERYONE, set aside frusturation and look past the drama. When we are able to join with eachother in a group as a FAMILY we can succeed, BUT when we allow bitter feelings and gossip (by the way I know in a-round-about way what goes on in the A Dressing room) we can reach out goals!!!!! (Our goal is to make it to STATE) I know that whenever people as talented and as dedicated as we are and people who spend more of our lives together than apart, nerves are bound to spark. I am only encouraging you, if anything for the sake of sanity of Mrs. Couch and OAP, please set aside your personal 'selves' better the success of OAP. Please let's do our best to promote peace. We only have a couple more months together. Don't take it for granted. I love you guys. We Can Make It!!!

Last Rehearsal Before Regionals

We need the following:
Strike papers
Union agenda for Joe and Lannon

1. Brandon, never run between actors talking.
2. Chavez - kick back (enunciate)
3. Teresa, pull hat back
4. Bridget, vest
5. Bridget, cannot understand "Get on.....
6. Women, react to Ruth's line about her mother
7. EVERYONE needs to be louder.... Lannon and all girls.
8. Roger, roll up sleeves before fight.
9. Women with Roth, move back and forth in slow motion.
10. Bridget, be fiestier with Matron at jail.
11. Bridget, we need the lilt.
12. Everyone's accents are sloppy.
13. Great monologue, Bridget. You are finding subtleties in the language.
14. Cohen, move out when saying the motion dies. Good job crumpling paper.
15. Society women, look at the ground. Remember this is a stinky place.
16. Roth, Stolle, Brandon - good job. BUT, remember to listen to what is going on so you can react to what has happened or what is said.
17. Julie and Alina, great job!
18. Judge! SUPERB!
19. Streetwalkers - be more insulted.
20. Brandon, when you are with Roth on 4 X 4, use the upstage instead of the downstage arm.
21. Lenore, great job in the tomb!
22. Overflowing bucket - needs laughter.
23. Anya, believe.
24. Roth, say "justice" following your speech.
25. Louder crying when Clara dies.
26. Great job, Kalyn and Justin. It is hard to fill in. We are fortunate to have you both.
27. HOMEWORK - I need for everyone to write a short paragraph(2-3 sentences) on what this play has meant to you. I want to send the mail to Cynthia. Be specific, not generic.
28. "Nothing so distinguishes great acting -- in any style, in any historical period -- than the feeling that the actor has the potential to 'go off' at any moment, and to unleash an explosion -- a flood of lava, that will be totally uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Great Acting always dances with danger!" - Robert Cohen
    "If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience." - Jack Lemon

Last Sunday's rehearsal before regionals

Critiques
1. Light and sound needs to be simultaneous
2. Newspapers – we cannot see the ads. Turn them so this is not evident.
3. Everyone who wears hats. Always put them down upside down. This is a custom.
4. Bridget, you need to be more lyrical.
5. EVERYONE – use accents each day this week.
6. Roger, when Roth is mean to the girls, REACT – all men left on stage need to do this.
7. Teresa, slow down and enunciate new lines. This is FUNNY – laugh, people.
8. It is HOT – don’t forget this.
9. Nathan, say ADJOURN to Clara
10. You’re a girl, clean it …., Anya, don’t anticipate.
11. Better clumping during Clara’s speech – don’t revert back to bad habits.
12. Brandon, EXCELLENT dance
13. It is cool in the jail.
14. Music cues are good.
15. FREEZE – men and women during Bridget’s speech.
16. Need a lilt – Bridget.
17. More murmuring in 2nd meeting.
18. Bloody miracle was good
19. Cohen, great variety in voice. Keep it up.
20. Laugher at the anger line of Bridget’s was good.
21. More murmuring in 2nd union scene.
22. Society women need to walk on platform.
23. Judge and Roth, exchange money on 4 X 4.
24. Murmur in hearing.
25. Judge, hit PRACTICE
26. Murmur in hearing after each speech that is crazy
27. Roth, Brandon, Stolle in hearing was good.
28. Murmur going back into the tombs
29. Rosie LEFT me
30. Clara, work on believability.
31. There are LICE in prison
32. Ruth, good job of the crazy cross when Anya get sup.
33. Judge – compromise was good
34. Great job turning sign around when Roth calls your name. Work on facial expressions EVERYONE when you freeze
35. Roth’s last lines were rushed.

Clara's Reflection

Breathing…to some this task is not even noticed, but every time I breathe needles scrape the inside of my lungs. The filthy damp air only prolongs the torture of the ripping of my chest. I hate coughing; it only makes the pain worse. I wish there was a way to remove the blood and tissues without coughing, but I know there is no hope. It is inevitable; this illness will devour my energy, my will, and my life. Until then though, I live on, making the most of each day. Today, I awoke with little sleep, pinned my hair back, and ate what little food I could scramble up. I was fortunate. One of the boarders had a strawberry. Oh how I love strawberries. It is not often that I am able to indulge in such pleasure, but today was different. The girls and I spoke once again of the cruelty of the shirt waste factory. If there was anything that I could do to change the way the world was…well I want to say that I would grasp that opportunity with my head held high, boldly. But the truth of the matter was, was that I’m so scared of this city. New York isn’t the land of the free, the land of equality, the land of justice. No. This was the land of bitterness, disappointment, and darkness. Every once in a while, some days, days like today, days when optimism fills my soul. Anya talked about a strike.. This was the train I had been so ready to aboard, but I was unsure. The things that I would be sacrificing such as my job, my family’s reputation, or even my sanity (which honestly I felt I lost long ago when we, my father and I, moved to this country in hope of getting away from the crime in France.). Nothing is different here. The homes are the same, except now we have to house strangers. Today is a day of goodness though. I think the angels picked today to smile upon, because I said that I would take part in what would be the most revolutionary act of the time. I would be apart of saving the working conditions for not only my children, but generations to come. I bled and died on the picket line, and I starved in the fresh air. I am someone’s hero. I am a simple French girl who helped changed the world.

A Reminder

Amy said...
looks like we get to go first... we need to make a lasting (good, memorible) impression on the judge.. we have come so far and are so close to state... lets give the best performance we have ever given... we need to push hard in practice coming up... everyone be ready to work... this is what we live for! (well atleast in the spring semester).. haha

Tuesday's Trial by Fire

OKAY, we got this one out of our system.

• Teresa, you are blocked by the girls at the beginning. Work your wayout of there.
• Nathan and Brandon, we cannot see you in the back as thugs. Make sure that you can see the judge's light. This goes for everyone.
• Matron, we need to see you in the jail scene. Make sure that you can see the judge's light. This goes for everyone.
• Nathan, you are blocked at the second union scene. If you cannot see the judge's light, move.
• Lannon, you are blocked in the second union scene. But, we love you by the pylon.
• Watch blocking in the trial scene.
• The tomb scene had problem blocking.
• In the ending scene, spread apart.
• Margaret, we need to see you left stage at the end.
• We started off about one minute late at the first time check.
• Clara - zee
• Watch the line downstage. No one can pass it.
• Zack, vendor, react to Nathan, vendor.
• \Bridget, come by and see the picture I have for you.
• Anya, louder when thugs come out.
• Roger, freeze during thug dance.
• LINES - do not stand in lines following the thug dance. THIS WAS EVIDENT!
• Guys, by the fire in Bridget's monolouge, freeze!
• Everyone needs to vary body language.
• Judge Powell, study your lines!
• So am I - Nathan, say this downstage.
• Brandon, scoot stage right more and with your back to the audience.
• Where is it fair - say this downstage more
• EYETIE - Brandon
• Jump on shoulder, Bridget.
• Americaaaaaaaaaaaa
• Bloody Miracle - don't say it upstage.
• Bridget, get mad when they laugh at your anger line - use the picture I have for you.
• Roger, bite the dime on the side facing the audience.
• Boys, watch clumping in second Union scene. Where was the union sign?
• Brandon - second scene, be more open
• Chance - Clara, that is such a powerful speech - we don't want you to lose it speaking into the curtains.
• Bribe - move more left stage.
• Today - Judge
• More crying, Anya - off in the tombs.
• Hug doll to chest, Roth, see me again.
• Brick wall - look at that speech. See smile - papers
• Tombs - Women must be engaged in what is happening there.
• it is too crowded right stage when the strike begins again.
• Accents worked well last week, mostly because you used them all week. This week's contest has a stronger judge. We CANNOT lose the contest because of accents.
• 1st Union scene - men in a straight line
• Chavez - accent?
• That's why women get married - more assured, matter of fact - not so much cocky
• When Clara speaks, all women are in a clump right stage.
• When you are supposed to be frozen, freeze.
• Theatre is the best means not to find oneself but to create oneself. Who said this? What does it mean? Let me know for a 100. Text - 470-9940 - only during lunch, before or after school; call my cell - same number - same story - before school, after school or during lunch; call my extension 2239.
• Red scarf, Chavez?
• Brandon and ALina, move more stage left after dance.
• Bridget, your monologue was good.
• Men, listen to Cohen, then talk or react to WHAT HE IS SAYING.
• Joe and ANya ************** second union meeting.
• Violet, accent?
• Clara, watch speaking upstage.
• Roger, put the hat upside down
• Society women, we need to mark your bench downstage more during trial.
• Brandon, wear a tie.
• Powell, bring the women downstage and talk to them.
• LINES?????
• Where were the dirty shawls?
• Compromise - Anya or Powell needs to move.
• Roth, cap on back of head.

OKAY, you got the bad rehearsal out of your system. Come to rehearal Thursday night ready to work at 7PM. Good luck to the band!

• Brandon, talk to Stolle at the trial.